Colonic Irritation!

<p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>In October 2020 my daughter Simran aged 20 presented a 16-slide deck on why our family needs a dog.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>The deck covered everything from needing something to love other than Netflix to how a dog would make us all walk and get healthy as I was looking more like Homer Simpson than Homer Simpson.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>I was told that I was the last obstacle (her actual words) and I argued that I didn't want a dog as it would become </span><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>my</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> dog and I had already parented enough with her and her brother Kieran.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>I was overruled and awaited my fate.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Two months later just before Christmas Milo arrived and from the moment we met I knew I was in trouble. He somehow knew I was the weak link so he made me his human. We should have named him Shadow as that's what he became to me.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>A year later he started acting strangely around me barking softly clawing and licking my belly in a comforting way.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>That was the moment the dog I didn't think I wanted ended up saving my life . . .</span></p>